The Levitating Sufis of Senegal

I had wondered where the tradition of a flying carpet had come from.  I now understand that Hindu meditation combined with Islam is essentially the way of the Sufi.  So it all comes back to meditation practice and what is called GOD realization.

So far so good.  We also know that exceptional physical performances can be generated through such practice.  However i also know that meditation is all about learning to work successfully with our spirit body.  Yet we have also come to understand that our spirit body is physically real and is formed from second tier matter which also carries the majority of all gravity that we perceive.

Thus it is plausible that the meditative mind is able to set up a resonance able to either push out such second tier matter or alternately to usefully impose order on it.  Thus the mind may well be able to manipulate gravity.

In fact a carpet would actually facilitate doing just that.  It provides two clear horizontal directions as well as an up - down direction associated with the Earth's gravity.

Whoever thought that it could be possible to make sense of flying carpets?  Now we need someone to actually do this in front of a film crew.  
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The Levitating Sufis of Senegal


—Part Two: A Miracle of Haji Bektash
 
by Qutub Sarmouni 

https://www.absolutoracle.com/SufiMaster/Articles2/TheLevitatingSufisofSenegal2.htm

Levitation is sometimes a matter of competition for adhering followers where spiritual authorities have a miracle versus miracle shoot-out between different sects or faiths.  In the book, The Bektashi Order of Dervishes, by John Kingsley Birge, Ph.D., you can find the following story of a successful competitive miracle of levitation by Haji Bektash in Turkey:

The third miracle is one of the most famous in Bektashi tradition.  It occurred when Seyit Mahmut Hayran of Ak Sehir, hearing of Haji Bektash, went forth to meet him.  To show his own power when he went out from Ak Sehir to meet Haji Bektash, he mounted a lion, using a serpent for a whip, and took with him three-hundred mollas or theological students.  Bektash, not to be out-done, spread his prayer-rug on a great rock, standing like a wall in the neighborhood, and commanded the rock to move.  As the two holy men met, Haji Bektash remarked that it was relatively easy to mount and drive an animal but to make a lifeless rock walk was indeed a miracle.  The two dismounted and talked together, leaving the rock standing where it may still be seen today.

What are we to understand from all this?  Is it a matter that only Sufis impressively ride lions and handle serpents?  Is it only Sufis who impressively have flying carpets or cause gigantic boulders to float and fly when mounted?  Is it only Sufis who have triumphed in miracle versus miracle competitions for impressing followers of other persuasions?

Let us look more deeply into the phenomenology of lion-riding.  Be informed that in Ancient Tibet, the wonder-working Guru Rimpoche Padma Sambhava, a Vajrayana Buddhist Immortal Siddha, when he first entered the Ancient Kingdom of Tibet, which was then under the spiritual and psychic domination of non-Buddist Bön sorcerers, shamans, thus to sell Buddhism, impressively rode about Bhutan mounted on a pregnant tigress (an especially dangerous and unmanageable creature to handle).  This was extremely impressive to the Tibetans, so he was given the additional name of Dorje Trolör as one of his “Eight Aspects”.

The problem for unmiraculous Western seekers is that they can become impressed but confused by the performances of Seyit Mahmut Hayran on the lion or Padma Sambhava on the pregnant tigress!  To try to become a Muslim Sufi or a Vajrayana Buddhist?  Should one learn Turkish or Tibetan?  How to get entry into the Miraculous?

Haji Bektash mounted a gigantic boulder and made it levitate and walk about.  This display of personal levitation power was extremely impressive at the time, but does it actually mean he was “holy” or even God-realized, a Godman, an Ultimate Sufi or Perfected Man?  Not necessarily.  For instance, an actually rather vicious and vindictive witch in Scotland, the Witch of Ben’iglo, near Blair Atholl in Scotland (where I myself dwelled for a few years, which is how I came to learn this lore) used to eat raw flesh of living serpents to give her personal levitation power.  She would often mount the boulder and fly with it about the local region to subdue and impress the inhabitants.  One day an especially God-fearing and devout farmer looked up and saw the boulder floating and Witch of Ben’iglo bearing down upon him.  He spontaneously yelled out “Jesus Christ!”  This disrupted her flight and caused her to bring the boulder down to earth and she had to leave that particular boulder sitting there.  Interestingly, the boulder must have retained a dangerous anti-gravitational force, for in the 1990’s, when a British military transport flew over it, it crashed near Ben’iglo, killing everybody on board.  At the time, the crash was considered “mysterious”.  For me, it was not so mysterious because I could see that the witch’s boulder did the job.

Lately, on Rense.com, you can actually see a television film of a flying witch in Mexico.  She, of course, is neither a Holy Sufi nor a Black Witch of Highland Scotland.  Of course, unmiraculous Western seekers could be confused as to whether to learn Scottish Witchcraft of the Highlands or Mexican Witchcraft of Mexican Nagual Brujos and Brujas.  Should one learn Gaelic or Spanish in order to be “authentic”?  What a dilemma for Western seekers!

There have been other miracle versus miracle competitions involving levitation.  In my life as Milarepa in Tibet (before I became unacceptable for being “exposed” as a Western Management Consultant and a universalist Sarmoun Sufi instead of an authoritarian and prejudiced Eastern Muslim “Sufi”) I was involved in a levitation competition with a famous Bön non-Buddhist adept shaman sorcerer.  We agreed to have a race to the top of Mount Kailas, the Holy Mountain of Shiva.  

 The Bön adept went slowly floating up Mount Kailas, while Milarepa just sat there demonstrating the Mahamudra Meditation.  But as the Bön adept approached the peak, he saw Milarepa waiting there already, seated in meditation, while down below he was observed suddenly disappearing.  The Milarepa miracle was obviously more advanced than mere levitation as such!  Impressive, hey?  At any rate, like Padma Sambhava before him, I, Milarepa, impressively upheld Vajrayana Buddhism against Bön.

Now, again, does this entail further confusion for Western Seekers as to whether to exclusively adhere to the culture-bound Islamic Sufi Way or the Kargyudpa Sect of Tibetan Yoga founded by the Great Siddha, Tilopa?  Should the unmiraculous and unimpressive Western seeker study Persian or Tibetan in order to become “authentic”, but a second-class citizen of Iran or Tibet?

So, again, what are we to understand from all this?

From a non-Islamic but universal Sarmoun point-of-view, the subject of levitation (including the group levitation of Dervishes in Senegal or of TM group meditators in America) is about something other than what Islamic Sufi authorities say about all this, just as it is not about what their Western exclusive adherents say nor is it about what the vast majority of unmiraculous and confused Western seekers say, nor is it about what the  self-appointed but unmiraculous Gurdjieff “authorities” say or what their pitifully undeveloped and gullible adherents say.  And what do you expect me to do?  Do I have to win a miracle versus miracle competition with a tradition-bound supposed Sufi Authority to “prove” to undeveloped and gullible Western seekers or supposed Sufi students that the correct orientation in our present Time-situation is to stop identifying exclusively with any particular path designed for people of another place and time, but rather make a new way to understand how human development really works?  And, is it the aim of the whole problematic opportunity to do things like levitation in order to impress bewildered fools to encourage their personal greed?  However, if one never levitates, that may mean something too.  What do you suppose that indicates?

I am wondering:  Is there anything “impressive” about the real truth of all this?  One thing is for sure:  There are vested interests in Islamic Sufism who do not like people on the Web taking a deep look at the issues I have been rightly raising to all Sufis (and others) who urgently need to hear them.  Personal attacks on a new transmitter of new and important spiritual truth are always the last resort of desperate false authorities, experts and failures in their own development.  My critics lately are pathetic self-appointed “experts” on the Sufi Way who have obviously never levitated during the big group Zikrs of Sufis in Senegal.  Even those incomplete Dervishes would generally be more charitable to a reincarnated Sufi Master in a Western body even if he were (oh horror) a reincarnation of a Tibetan Adept Yogi as well.  For, after all, the Global Transition Crisis needs universal appreciation and harmony urgently in the face of the de-isolation of cultures and traditions.  Humanity is, in fact, already beginning to interface with Extraterrestrial cultures and spiritual traditions!  How will Spiritual Evolution Seekers cope with Cosmic Contacts when they cannot assimilate Mutual Contacts of diverse schools and traditions of Earth?  The competition for Western exclusive adherents between exclusive Eastern authoritarian traditions (Idries Shah against Chögyam Trungpa against Swami Rama against Carlos Castaneda against Krishnamurti against X, Y and Zed, etc. plus Gurdjieff is also dead)  has created nothing but a massive complex of disorganizing entropy, which means that the overall global system of “Search For Truth” cannot process evolutionary information.  This is a massive, ubiquitous global human failure of Human development.  So, now it must be said:

Oneness With The Divine Universe Is The Real Sarmoun Way Beyond All Ignorant Conditioning.

Whoever can grasp this simple thing will understand that Qutub Sarmouni is a solution and not a problem, as is true for the increasing number of secret Sarmounis in the West and the East, whether they are impressively levitating or not.  In fact, when the ignorant, conditioned and exclusive traditional follower levitates, it is more of a social problem than an evolutionary breakthrough.

One more thing:  The Kaif of the tomb of Haji Bektash Veli is very great and good.  If you visit there with real respect and receptivity, you will be greatly uplifted and empowered if you want to plug into it, but please do not join the Bektashi Order and stupidly imagine it will solve your evolutionary problems.  The same, by the way, is also true about the Kaif of the grave of Gurdjieff in France.  It does not mean join the Gurdjieff people nor does it mean you should try to become an Armenian.  Please do not try to become an “authentic” Armenian as if it would help you become as intelligent and mature as a Gurdjieff.  O.K.?  Can you understand this principle?

Another thing:  If you do realize that I am the real Qutub Sarmouni, it does not mean you have to learn to function professionally as a management consultant, nor do you have to become an ex-patriot American or a “typical Western Crank Guru”, nor do you have to form a special relationship with North American Indian Medicine Men, nor need you try to become an Alien Contactee, nor need you develop “an obvious messiah complex”, etc., ad nauseam.